I saw this news article and simply had to share it, pretty neat:
(broken link removed to http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x794473685/50-years-later-thief-returns-stolen-saw)
LAKE TWP. — Mel Yoder didn’t know what to make of the box that recently showed up outside his home.
The package — cardboard held together with tape — had his name repeatedly scrawled across the sides.
“I thought about calling the police to open it but I didn’t. ... I didn’t know if there was a snake in there or a bomb or what.”
It turns out that the package was dropped off by a snake of sorts, a thief who long ago stole Yoder’s circular saw. It took five decades for the guilt-ridden party to return it.
A puzzled Yoder, 85, looked inside the box and recognized his old Porter-Cable circular saw right away. It’s now too old and rusty to work but it finally made its way home.
Yoder, a retired contractor, remembers that it was taken out of his truck when he stopped for coffee at The Pantry restaurant in Hartville. He figures it was 1959 or 1960.
The loss hurt but he never bothered to file a police report; he just moved on.
Flash forward to last month when the box appeared at his Midway Street NW residence.
Yoder figures the person who took it must know him, since Yoder didn’t live on Midway 50 years ago when the tool disappeared.
Yoder wants the thief to know he doesn’t hold a grudge.
“If he contacts me, I’ll tell him I forgive him.”
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(broken link removed to http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x794473685/50-years-later-thief-returns-stolen-saw)
LAKE TWP. — Mel Yoder didn’t know what to make of the box that recently showed up outside his home.
The package — cardboard held together with tape — had his name repeatedly scrawled across the sides.
“I thought about calling the police to open it but I didn’t. ... I didn’t know if there was a snake in there or a bomb or what.”
It turns out that the package was dropped off by a snake of sorts, a thief who long ago stole Yoder’s circular saw. It took five decades for the guilt-ridden party to return it.
A puzzled Yoder, 85, looked inside the box and recognized his old Porter-Cable circular saw right away. It’s now too old and rusty to work but it finally made its way home.
Yoder, a retired contractor, remembers that it was taken out of his truck when he stopped for coffee at The Pantry restaurant in Hartville. He figures it was 1959 or 1960.
The loss hurt but he never bothered to file a police report; he just moved on.
Flash forward to last month when the box appeared at his Midway Street NW residence.
Yoder figures the person who took it must know him, since Yoder didn’t live on Midway 50 years ago when the tool disappeared.
Yoder wants the thief to know he doesn’t hold a grudge.
“If he contacts me, I’ll tell him I forgive him.”
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